In the early 20th century, a conflict loomed in the Pacific as Japan launched a surprise attack on a crucial Russian naval base in 1904. This war, often overlooked, would reshape global history and Asia’s power balance. It’s not 1941, but rather a lesser-known chapter—the Russo-Japanese War.
Join us as we dive into this fascinating period of military history.
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Russian=Alcoholic nation
They will have more epic war failures to come
RuzziaNazi is repeating history.. 😂😂😂😂
-Lost naval to japan (lost moskva to Ukraine)
-left ww1 and had civil war (fighting Ukraine and had a mini civil war)
😂😂
Seven Years war in the background crying because it is not called a world war
the Russian admiral. : "give me another binocular to throw"
Sailor: "but we've run out of them"
Adm: "why?"
Sailor: "well you keep on losing your temper and throwing them at our useless ships and navy". And oh look IJN torpedo boats
Adm: those aren't torpedo boats, still fire at will
Da : (Russian for Yes)
Net : (Russian for No)
Russians: So let me guess this right, you just decided to shoot up fishing Boats, BRITISH, GERMAN, SWEDISH, and FRENCH and fishing boats?
Admiral: … Da.
Russians: But you halted fire and helped rescue the survivors?
Admiral: Net! We ran away!
Russians: Where were you running to?
Admiral: Suez
Russians: The same Suez controlled by the British.
Admiral: Da.
Russians: Via British controlled Gibraltar?
Admiral: Da
Russians: So you were running away from the British by running to the British? What part of this plan did you think about?
And then you lost, all, I repeat all your battleships and basically your entire fleet, hit nothing and inflicted no damage.
Russians: Da…. but we did "sink" 3 torpedo boats (Japanese destroyers accidentally rammed and sank their own boats)
This is such a great channel.
16:33 that's a Chinese communist CCP flag not Qing dynasty flag🤨
thank you!
The video at 6:57 is of Port Arthur in Tasmania, Australia. Specifically, the island on screen is the Isle of the Dead
This very successful war for Japan kicked off with a brilliant surprise attack on a naval base. A strategy that was afterwards deemed guaranteed to never backfire.
Russia has had several epic war failures in its long bloody history. The most important failure in the 19th century was the Crimean War era 1860s when France and England blocked Russia's access to the Mediterranean. The reason was they wanted to keep their monopoly of trade and naval power on the Med.
Oh com'n missed out the best moments of the Russian 2nd Pacific fleets voyage of 1904 , that was lucky the ROYAL NAVY didn't sink after the North Sea incident ??? or the numerous reported Japanese torpedo attacks , ,, the admiral throwing 🔭 at ships , sailors and the sea … or the fact the crews took all kinds of animals while on their voyage to destruction
You know, it makes one wonder… How many senior officers in the Imperial Japanese navy came to equate Russia's embarrassing naval efforts to the probable results in challenging America's naval presence in the Pacific. At least Yamamoto knew better, yet went ahead anyway, only hoping for swift, early victories leading to U.S. concessions…
They didnt come close to explaining the ABSOLUTE CLUSTER FUCK, the Voyage of the Baltic fleet actually was. That fleets Voyage is one of the GREATEST NAVAL EMBARRASSMENTS IN HISTORY. IF YOU WANT TO LAUGH URSELF TO DEATH LOOK INTO IT MORE. THERES GREAT VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE ABOUT IT.
FOR EXAMPLE: s soon as they left port and entered the North Sea they attacked a fishing boat cuz they thought it was a Japanese Torpedo boat, IN THE NORTH SEA….LOL😂😂😂
History shows that Ruzzia's entire history is predicated in Imperialism and conquest.
As the current Czar is hellbent on lording over Ukraine, it is an unsavory truth that the only way to rid the world of this menace is the total, complete, and unrecoverable defeat, destruction, and dismantling of Russia into separate regional entities.
As long as Pootin lives and breathes, there can be no peace for Europe and the rest of the world.
Gotta give it to the Japanese. Never has such a small piece of land projected so much power
Imagine if Japan stopped at this point. They would have had access to the oil fields in Sakhalin today and Russia would lavk any form of unrestricted access for their Pacific fleet.
WWZ has been largely forgotten by history.
All of you guys should watch the video about Russia's Baltic Fleet by Blue Jay, it'll give you a much better idea of the idiocy
8:15 that's not the location of Port Arthur.
The Russo-Japanese war wasn’t Russia’s first failure it was one in a very long list of failures. Remember the Golden Horde?
Japan wasn’t the greatest Naval power outside Europe the US was. This was the era of the US Great White fleet.
Ah, yes. The Kamchatka shall ever remain a naval meme.
Dude, if you come across a new word, just look it up to learn how to pronounce it.
This Maiji Emperor, sounds so much like the Meiji Emperor
Pretty sure Russia’s first big military failure was actually the Crimean War but ok.
what do you mean by Ukraine conflict? Ukrine is not disputed, it's a sovereign state. This is a genocidal ruzian war, where world leading countries are emparassingly distancing themselves braking their obligation to keep the world order.
The map of "Russian Empire in 1904" is extremely wrong. I'm not even sure what map did you use as Russia never had country borders like this at any point in time.
Ok, you allowed a liberty of including a part of Manchuria that Russia de-facto controlled, but what the heck is going on in Europe and at the Caucasus?
Did you KNOW Russia BAD 🙁 !
Here are 100 Books on African American Knights in Medieval Europe and how they helped building up The Roman Empire.
The truly incredible anime "Golden Kamuy" is set during the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese war and the MC and most of the main recurring cast are Japanese vets returning home and getting embroiled in a treasure hunt for an Ainu gold cache. It's fantastic and everyone should see it. HINNA HINNA
"Tsushima – first battle of modern battleships". HMS Dreadnought says helo.
Maine called, he says Portsmouth is in New Hampshire. N.H. Is bad at hockey.
Medvedev said Russia NEVER lost…which is BS… even our (Czechoslovak) legionaries won our first and only naval battle for a country that never had a navy and not to mention, didn't even exist in that time – Battle of Baikal
The Tai-Ping rebellion; or, when one throwaway sentence encapsulates the death of 20 million.
The Baltic Fleet's journey NEEDS to be a movie. The events practically wrote the hilarious script themselves.
Could have mentioned the trawler war in north sea
And how they were basically a British ally and start of the rift between navy and army
Russia's military hasn't changed since then either. Ranks are still gotten by favoritism, the troops are ill trained & supplied and the leadership is disjointed & unsupportive of each other. They are being taught the same lessons all over again. They still think that numbers are all that matter.
Is "The Military Show" in partnership with "Infographics?" They have the exact same title here
@7:00 the scenery looks like port arthur in australia??